Determiners Exercises PDF With Answers

Determiners are those words which come before noun and show how they are used. They contain several classes of words, including pronouns and adjectives. The use of noun is necessary after a determiner. Sometimes a qualifying word may also come among determiner and noun words. Determiners show whether a noun refers to is a general or a specific object, person, or place. They also indicate which or how many things the noun refers to.

Determiners Exercises PDF

Determiners play a crucial role in specifying and providing information about nouns. These exercises will help you practice using different determiners accurately in sentences. Download PDF for free!

Kinds of Determiners

1. Articles : a/an, the.
2. Demonstratives : this, that, these, those.
3.Possessives : my, our, your, his, her, their, its.
4. Quantifiers : a few, a little, much, many, a lot of, most, some, any, enough.
5. Numbers : one, ten, some, any, many, a few, all, several, each, every, either, neither etc.
6. Distributive : all, both, half, either, neither, each, every, only.

Choose the correct determiners for the following sentences:

1. What _____ beautiful flower! (a/ the)
2. Aditi wants me to lend her ________ car. (that/ my/ her)
3. Neeraj is _______ doctor. (a/ an/ the)
4. I need to buy _______ new furniture for my apartment. (any/some)
5. My uncle is _____ richest man in the town. (a/ the)
6. Mount Everest is _________ highest peak in _________ Himalayas. (a/ an/ the)
7. ______ clothes made in our factory are very cheap. (a/ the)
8. We heard _____ noise. _____ noise came from a neighbour’s house. (a/ an/ the)
9. Can you bring me _______ water when you come back? (some/ any)
10. The inquiry officer asks about the incident _____ happened yesterday. (that/ which)
11. Who is ________ fellow? (that/ those)
12. Ravi is _______ best singer in the school. (an/ the)
13. This car can be driven at ________ speed of 180 kilometres ________ hour. (a/ an/ the)
14. The gardener waters ________ plants every day. (his/ their)
15. The dog licked its paw. (his/ its)
16. I need ___________ help with my homework. (any/ some)
17. We invited ______ colleagues over to our house for ____ barbecue party. (a few/few; a/an/the)
18. I used to live in ____ house. (this/that/these)
19. Is there _______ way we can get to the airport faster? (any/ some)
20. Our teacher didn’t give us ___________ homework yesterday. (some/ any)
21. _____ qualifications do you have? (whose/ what/ which)
22. _____ is your residential address? (which/ where/ what)
23. She is wearing a beautiful ring on _____ finger. (her/ their)
24. Can I get ___ hot bowl of soup? (a/ an)
25. He went to the shopping mall with_______ younger sisters. (his both/ both his/ two his)
26. Could you please bring me ______ books I left in _____ garden? (these/ those; the/ a/ an)
27. Thomas read ___________ interesting books last month. (any/ some)
28. The book belongs to ___. (her/ hers)
29. I’m tired. Do we have ___________ time to take a nap? (any/ some)
30. He turned on ______ television. (the/ an)

Fill in the blanks with appropriate determiners:

1. Have you visited _______ foreign countries recently?
2. The book on the table belongs to _____ library.
3. ____ dog is ___ faithful animal.
4. ____ rich should help ____ poor.
5.  I have got _____ cold.
6. Most of ______ students were absent from ______ class.
7. ______ tiger is _____ fierce animal.
8. Although he’s very ill, he didn’t take _______ medicine.
9. How _______ time do you need to finish the work?
10. Honesty is ______ best policy.
11. Kalidas is ________ Shakespeare of India.
12. Sri Lanka is to ________ South of India.
13. Where is ________ pen I bought last week ?
14. I saw _______ nest of ______ owl on ______ tree.
15. Please open _______ window.
16. Open _______ book and read ________ passage.
17. June is _______ hottest month of _______ year.
18. I shall be back in _______ hour.
19. Can _______ blind see ?
20. What is ______ matter ?

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Find out the error or determiners in the sentences given below and correct them:

1. He is a boy who helps me in need.
2. Everyone takes little time to settle down at a new place.
3. I am going to post office. It is near the central park.
4. Sara wrote much of her poems when she was young.
5. That is beautiful house.

Answers:

1. He is the boy who helps me in need.
2. Everyone takes a little time to settle down at a new place.
3. I am going to the post office. It is near the central park.
4. Sara wrote many of her poems when she was young.
5. That is a beautiful house.

The job of a determiner is to designate a specific number of a noun or to declare a clarification of what a noun refers to. They are absolutely required to be involved in singular nouns, but optional when referring to plurals.